La Crosse Veterans From 32nd Division Return Home
Twelve La Crosse men of the 120th Field Artillery Battalion part of the 32nd Red Arrow Infantry Division are returning under the army demobilization program after over three years overseas. The group includes Harold J. Dixon and Corp. Roman R. Stahl among others. they earned multiple combat ribbons and medals including the Purple Heart for some. Other Wisconsin men of the 32nd are also returning as the division demobilizes.
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Zon
Philippines
la Crosse
Wis
Veter
Ans
New Guinea
Phil
Army
120Th Field Artillery
32Nd “Red Arrow
Harold J. Dixon
Minnie Dixon
St. Cloud Street
Corp
Roman R. Stahl
Jacob Stahl
Mississippi Street
Ernest Mice Levens
Seine Street
Vons Jr
Earl Ly
H. B. Fillner
Robert Beagles
South Avenue
Dutch East Indies
Leyte
Luzon
Philippi
Saidor
Pearl Harbor
Lyons
Gantenbein
Severson
Sgt
Grover
120Th Field Artillery Battalion
Wisconsin
32Nd
Ane National Guard
Warnings Issued On Diphtheria In La Crosse
Health officer A. M. Murphy cautions La Crosse residents as diphtheria cases rise. He notes the first local death in 18 years, a 21 year old mother, and urges immunization for children to prevent further tragedies.
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la Crosse
A. M. Murphy
Wayward Wallet Wanders To War
A fragment describes a billfold hidden under floor boards near an antenna in a scene titled War. The odd placement suggests a misplaced wallet connected to a broader wartime setting. Readable phrases imply mystery around a personal item amid a conflict context.
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Wayward
Five Thousand Dollar Prize For Best White Meat Chicken
Chicago reports a $5,000 prize for the breeder producing the best white meat chicken within three years. A poultry breeders committee plans a white meat campaign to rival turkey breeder efforts and favors rapid maturity and high egg production in the breeding stock. D D Slade of Lexington heads the committee and cites the Broad Breasted Bronze as a model.
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Chicago
D. D. Slade
Lexington
International Baby Chick Association
Eat Before You Come To Town Mayor Says
Matoon mayor George W. Smith urged travelers and salesmen to eat a hearty meal before visiting the city or bring their own lunch. The advisory followed shortages that led to closures tied to wartime production work in town.
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Matoon
George W. Smith
One of 'Big Ben' Heroes Allan C Russell Sir Judith Lee Russell
Judith Lee Russell of Mount Hope Wisconsin is listed as guardian to Allan C Russell aboard the USS Franklin known as Big Ben. The carrier survived a Japanese bombing off Japan while 60 miles out on a fast carrier task force. The ship suffered fires and explosions, 341 killed, 431 missing, 300 wounded before returning to New York.
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Allan C. Russell
Judith Lee Russell
Lloyd Key
Mount Hope
Wis
Big Ben
Franklin
Pacific
New York
Japan
Outieasht
Soldier Of Fortune Ends Long War Roams No More
Fort Worth Texas Captain Jack Ryder, a veteran who survived multiple fronts from Dun kerque Tobruk to Spain Finland Czecho Slobakia France and Belgium, has settled in Texas after a medical discharge with his wife and their nine week old daughter Anita Jane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Jack Ryder
Dunkerque
Tobruk
Spain
Finland
Czecho-Slovakia
France
Belgium
Marines Oval
Texas
California
Anita Jane
Stork Shower For Dad Mott At Workplace Event
An embarrassed host hosted a stork shower for dad Mott with Carolyn Howard present and staff gifts given to the plant foreman amid a casual office gathering.
Polishing Lenses Aims to Aid 11,000 Women with Rouge
A records note outlines a project to polish precision lenses and supply roughly 11,000 women with rouge for a year. The plan centers on distributing beauty supplies through a civic or charitable program to support female residents.
Real Estate Transfers and County Court Notices in La Crosse
Daily Records summarizes real estate transfers, including Pred J Roy and Agnes Rose transferring property on Onalaska Avenue to Lawrence H Scholl. Also notes Orrin Olson to New Amsterdam, driving under intoxicating liquor with $100 fine and one year license revocation, Donald Hobson jailed 15 days for vagrancy, and Wegner fined $5 plus costs for unpaid vehicle registration. Sorenson faces $25 fine and 30 days for public place offense in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
J Roy
Orsell
Agnes Rose
Lawrence H. Scholl
Onalaska Avenue
Cunningham and
Campbell Streets
Orrin Olson
New Amsterdam
Donald Hobson
C. C. Davis
Caledonia Streeter
Lemuel Paul Wegner
West Salem
Benjamin Sorenson
Improved Personnel In Institutions Seen
Madison Wisconsin President E B Fred of the University of Wisconsin told county welfare workers the university is conducting research promising social and economic benefits for the state. He said programs are in progress to improve personnel in state institutions. The welfare institute drew 70 attendees and will run through the week with discussions on postwar coordination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
E. B. Fred
University of Wisconsin
Institute For the Welfare Workers
Still Time To Plant Many Garden Crops
County agent Emil J. Schiessser says it is not too late for Victory gardeners to begin or continue. Most late vegetables can still be planted for good crops, including two or more plantings of beans corn carrots and beets. Late cabbages may also mature.
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Emil J. Schiessser
So Sorry Win Die Or Commit Harakiri Directive
In a wartime directive Emperor Hirohito ordered a total resistance stance with a win or die ultimatum for Japanese volunteers. The Home Front forces were told not to surrender in case of invasion. The new manual outlined death before capture as policy. Imperial headquarters later acknowledged Okinawa losses.
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San Francisco
Hiroto
People's Volunteer Corps
Genki Abe
Hirohito
Tokyo
Imperial Headquarters
Okinawa
Supply Firm Opens Open House and Dealers Meeting
Motor and Auto Supply Inc sponsors an open house at 214 216 South Third Street and a combined dealers and manufacturers service meeting at Concordia Hall near 12th and La Crosse streets. Dealers from within 80 miles of La Crosse are invited. Thirty four manufacturing firms will send representatives to the noon starting event followed by lunch and refreshments. The firm recently remodeled its store and invites attendees to visit before the meeting.
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Me Motor and Auto Sup Inc
South Third Street
Concordia Hall
12Th
la Crosse Streets
la Crosse
Steine Helps Build Pontoon Bridges In Europe
Pfc Vilas Steine in Germany reports engineers built a heavy pontoon bridge over the Rhine near Worms in nine hours. He helped at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim and visited Heidelburg Heilbruhn Stuttgart Ulm Memmingen Kempten Innsbruck Kufstein. Now located at Landsberg on the Lech river. Son of Samuel Steine of Franklin.
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Ettrick
Wis
Keith Hardie
Pfc
Vilas Steine
Germany
Steine
Rhine
Worms
Ludwigshafen
Mannheim
Heidelburg
Heilbruhn
Stuttgart
Ulm
Memmingen
Kempten
Austria
Innsbruck
Kufstein
Hitler
Landsberg
Lech River
Samuel Steine
Franklin
Spiritual Kidnapping Charged by Rabbi in Letter to Paper
Britain's Chief Rabbi J H Hertz voices concern in a Times letter that many Jewish children saved from Nazis in liberated lands were baptized by rescuers. He urges the United Nations to end spiritual kidnapping and praises Christians who risked their lives to save children, but insists the test is returning children to their parents or faith community.
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London
J. H. Hertz
Britain
The
Times
United Nations
Allied Troops Prepare March to Berlin
Allied forces under 21st Army Group head quarters expect American British and Canadian troops to march to Berlin before July 1 with a Churchill Stalin Truman conference anticipated in the German capital within ten days. The Desert Rats of the British seventh armored division are alerted for 12 hours notice to parade in their western occupation zone.
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21St Army Group
Berlin
Churchill
Stalin
Truman
Seventh Armored Division
Desert Rats
Allied Control Commission
Pfc Kenneth Barry Returns Home From Overseas Duty
Pfc Kenneth B Barry son of Mr and Mrs Berdette Barry Viroqua Wisconsin is home after three years and two months overseas with the 32nd division He joined the Viroqua National Guard after high school and trained in Louisiana He went overseas in April 1942 saw action in New Guinea A severe injury last year kept him from combat for several months
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Viroqua
Wis
Kenneth B. Barry
Berdette Barry
32Nd Division
National Guard
Louisiana
New Guinea
Earliest Printed Book Found in Chinese Caves
The oldest known printed book was discovered in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in China and is dated 698 A.D. The find sheds light on early printing techniques and medieval Chinese scholarship.
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Thousand Buddhas
China
OUR MEN IN SERVICE La Crosse area soldiers in V-12 and more
The La Crosse region reports men in the U S military who transferred from Lawrence college to V-12 units and are heading to Marquette Northwestern or NROTC. Several corporals earned combat badges and completed Marine machine gun school. Eight local sailors begin Great Lakes indoctrination with future leave.
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Gerald Foellini
la Crosse
Julien Jorgenson
Charles Street
Howard Mitchell
Avon Street
Lawrence College
Appleton
Marquette
Northwestern University
NROTC
Arnold P. Burns
Louise Wiegand
Sumner Street
Co. K
387Th
97Th Infantry Division
Ruhr
Corp
Donald H. McIntyre
Sarah V. McIntyre
Marine Machine Gun School
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Ill
James J. Inda
Lillian Inda
Market Street
Robert C. Towner
C. W. Towner
North Sixth Street
Dale B. Peterson
L. R. Watson
South Eighth Street
Elmer L. Stapert
S. J. Stapert
Pine Street
Verdell Bruemmer
Armin Bruemmer
Liberty Street
James O. Jacobson
O. A. Jacobson
North 10Th Street
Scott C. Burgess
C. B. Burgess
South 17Th Street
Christ N. Mesoloras
N. C. Mesoloras
North 14Th Street
Pfc
Leroy C. McArthur
Military Police
Germany
Lorraine McArthur
Seventh Street
Committees to Meet at City Hall Tuesday Evening
The mayor's special committee and all other common council committees will gather in City Hall on Tuesday at 7 30 p m. They will convene with the urban development committee of the postwar planning group for the session.
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Common Council
Postwar Planning Group
United States Engaged in 111 Conflicts Since Early Nation
The record notes 111 wars including Indian engagements with tribal nations, outlining a long history of military actions and confrontations involving the United States across different eras and regions.
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United States
Austria Becomes Third Largest European Oil Producer
Austria tops Hungary and Poland to rank third in Europe in oil production with about 5 million tons annually as of 1944. L Indicateur Industriel notes potential to push output to 2 million tons per year. Swiss visitors report Vienna refineries damaged but likely to resume in five months.
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Berne
Austria
Europe
L’indicateur Industriel
Geneva
Engineers Tha
Hungary
Rowi
Poland
Cording
L’indicateur
Austr
Vienna
Army Trucks To Be Released To Farmers
The War Food Administration announced on Monday that about 10 000 light and 20 000 trucks will be released to meet urgent agriculture needs. Trucks will go to the Commerce Department by August 1 for distribution to dealers who will sell only to certificate holders from county agricultural committees.
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Washington
Army
War Food Administration
Commerce Department
First Draftee To Win DSC Lost On Jop Ship
Burlington, Wis. Sgt. Leroy Anderson, first selected to win the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II, was aboard a Japanese prison ship sunk off the Philippines last Oct. 24. His mother, Mrs. Hattie Anderson, has been informed by the War Department. Anderson earned the DSC for valor in the Bataan fighting with a Janesville tank company.
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Burlington
Wis
Leroy Anderson
Philippines
Hattie Anderson
War Department
Anderson
Bataan
Janesville Tank Company
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LA Crosse Tribune
By Galbraith
Fisherman
Sth
Stork
Dad
S. A. Kresky
Old Line Life Insurance Company of America
Kresky
Hartberg Agency of
Marinette
Marquette University
George Washington University
Springfield
Mass
Raymond P. Gallagher
Earl V. Laurie
William J. Granfield
Hazel
Arthur G. Benson
M. D
Riveli Bidg
Kenneth Barry
By Mauldin
U. S
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Foreign Service
U.S
Robert L. Mitchell
H. J. Mitchell
Naval Training School
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Tks
Edwing. Yost
Hoeschlers’ Drug Store
Edwin G. Yost
Peterman
Peterman’s
Cary Oil Burner CO
South 6Th Street
Badger Ordnance
Badger Ordnance Works
U. S. Army
Baraboo
MacArthur
Nimitz
America
U.S. Employment Office Exchange
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